Python education survey

[Andrew Berg]

On 12/27/2011 4:04 PM, K Richard Pixley wrote:
> You still need to match versions of PyDev to versions of Eclipse to
> versions of operating system to versions of other eclipse plugins.  I
> spent a few days trying to get it together once and came to the
> conclusion that it was a much bigger effort than I was willing to commit to.
This is more of a package management issue than an Eclipse one. I had no 
problems getting the very latest stable versions of everything on 
Windows. I'm pretty sure most schools will be using Windows for 
workstations anyway. In any case, if Eclipse is impractical for whatever 
reason, obviously it would be wise to try something else.

>>>  You could create your own distribution of eclipse, but
>>>  then you have that "only useful for python" problem again.
>>  AFAIK, Eclipse should always be good for Java unless you do some serious
>>  hacking.
>
> Depends on which versions of eclipse, java, os, other plugins, etc.
How so? AFAIK, Eclipse is almost (if not completely) unusable without Java.

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